Fred, a young photographer, Claire met in a bar, a beautiful thief whom he falls in love. One day he accompanied a photograph of a man and gets knocked out and steal his film. Questioned by police, he remains silent. Claire touched by this attention, he then reveals that the man who accompanied a gangster who bullies. The two young men then tried to start a new life together. A detective comedy and caustic to replicas by Michel Audiard.

A Salvation Army lieutenant and an accordion player fall in love, only to be repeatedly separated by circumstance. Reuniting in Marseille, they build a life and have a child, but fate continues to intervene as their relationship unfolds through cycles of separation and reunion.